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Newspaper
Waterbury Evening Democrat
Location
Waterbury, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Aug 03, 1908
Page
8
Special sale on leather bags in walrus grain alligator and monkey skins. Regular prices from 6.50 to 12.98 with discounts to 4.08 and 0.25 to 1.25 for selected traveling bags. Wide styles and leathers offered at substantial markdowns.
Paris amid a 24 hour general strike threat, authorities deploy 25,000 troops. Reports note violent bill posters about a crackdown after police actions in Vigneux. Other items cover Panama electing Jose Domingo de Obaldia, U S currency study trips, antibetting enforcement, and Mrs Longworth ending a strike with pay.
James Farrell a New York horse driver, honored with the blue ribbon for humane treatment of horses, drowns while saving his seventeen year old son Arthur off West Side piers. The son, aided by onlookers, dives, but Farrell releases to prevent his son from sharing the fate, and is later pronounced dead after attempts at resuscitation. In a separate incident, Dr. James Curts of Paterson loses a guest and Donald Holmes is killed as a Susquehanna Railroad train hits their automobile near Bostа, N J. Additional reports cover a potato-field shooting in East Waverly, New York, and a note on Cardinal Mezzofanti as a famed polyglot.
In Lincoln Nebraska William J. Bryan emphasizes depositor favored banking reform amid Oklahoma plan debates. He will speak in Topeka Kansas this month on protecting depositors as Guthrie failure sparks support. Also notes Bryan accepted as honorary member by Lincoln Typographical Union and a Maryland homicide involving a suspected gang.
A historic notice lists social gatherings and dances from August to September at venues including School hall South Vie terbury Reid's grove Jacques opera house Murray hall Rick's dancing academy and City hall for various groups such as Four Unknowns Branch 26 Workmen's circle Br 2 Socialist party Ramblers and Brooklyn Athletic club. An ad promotes Kodol for dyspepsia with Buckingham Pharmacy as the seller.
An advertisement promises two 50 cent seats for the evening show when presented with the ad by a woman accompanied by another woman. The offer allows two seats for the price of one admission, requiring the advertisement to redeem.
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